1995 CETH Summer Seminar Overview

The Summer Seminar will address a wide range of challenges and
opportunities that electronic texts and software offer to teachers,
scholars and librarians in the humanities. The focus will
be practical and methodological, with the immediate aim of assisting
participants in their teaching, research, and advising. It will be
concerned with the demonstrable benefits of using electronic texts,
typical problems and how to solve them, and how
software fits or can be adapted to common methods of textual study.
Participants will work on their own projects and will be
given the opportunity to present them at the end of the Seminar.

In response to demand, we are expanding the Seminar in 1995 to
provide a maximum of sixty places. There will be a plenary sessions
throughout and six parallel tracks devoted to specific areas of
humanities computing. Participants will attend all plenary sessions and
select one parallel track for more detailed study.

The six parallel tracks will cover textual analysis, TEI/SGML, scholarly
editing, hypertext, tools for historical analysis, and the design and
planning of an electronic text center. Each track will allow for intensive
work on participants' own projects and give ample opportunity for both
hands-on experience with current software and seminar discussion, as
appropriate.

Throughout the Seminar, the instructors will provide assistance with
designing projects, locating sources for texts and software, and solving
practical problems. Ample computing facilities will be available. A
small library of essential articles and books in humanities computing
will be on hand to supplement printed seminar materials, which include
an extensive bibliography. Special lectures will describe current research
in the field and address research topics as well as the role of the library
in the use of electronic texts.

The Seminar is intended for faculty, students, librarians, technical
advisers, and academic administrators with direct responsibilities for
humanities computing support. It assumes basic computing experience
but not necessarily with its application to academic research and
teaching in the humanities.

Location

Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, was founded in 1746 and is the fourth oldest college in North America. Among the University's attractions are the library system, which houses abou five million printed books, 34,000 journals, manuscripts and papyri; and the Princeton Art Museum. The town of Princeton, located midway between New York City and Philadelphia, offers a variety of shops and restaurants.